Rumi’s poetry has the magical ability to show us truth and to unlock love’s precious secrets. Within the folds of his words, we gain entrance to a hidden chamber; we hear whispers that are ancient; we behold the endless love story between the individual soul and God.

The goal of Sufism is to know love in all of its glorious forms; and every prophet, every practice, and every form of worship that leads toward love.

Dr LEUNG Ping-kwan, a poet-professor, said at the Kubrick Poetry Forum, “Poetry is a private matter.”

Schubert's Lied cycles show us how performing arts can add a social dimension to private sentiments. This is Empathy—the first principle of art psychology, or Relevance, if you prefer linguistic term. Please listen to e.g. Erstarrung (Numbness) in Schubert’s Winterreise:

"[…] Wo sie an meinem Arme / Durchstrich die grüne Flur.”

A dramatic character’s private thought can be a matter of communication.

Please consult another poet-professor Dr MAK Su-yin. "Her recent work has focused on the music of Schubert and Schumann..."

“… even up to 1945 we still retained a number of chivalrous gestures […], subscribed to the FANTASY that [women] were chaste & pure things, in whose presence we could not tell certain stories or pronounce certain words.”